Putin wants to surpass Stalin: an interview with an expert about the recipe for “victory” of the Russian dictator/Collage of the 24 channel site
In recent days, the information space has been actively talking about the fact that Vladimir Putin may announce a general mobilization in Russia, and subsequently announce the annexation of temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
Whether Putin will announce a general mobilization and what result he will get, what the Russians want to do with the occupied parts of the Ukrainian south, and how much they support the continuation of the war surrounded by the owner of the Kremlin – Sergey Bykov, head of the Institute for Public Policy and Consulting, said in an exclusive interview with Channel 24.
Mobilization in Russia and Putin's “victories”
Sergey, is Putin really going to announce a general mobilization?
Peskov has already denied this story about mobilization. Most likely, it will not happen because of the extremely low morale of the Russians and the low desire to go to war against Ukraine.
It is one thing to mobilize part of the conditional contract soldiers invited from the periphery of the Russian Federation, and quite another to announce a full mobilization throughout the country .
Then we will see that everyone will be sent here without exception. Including those mobilized from large Russian cities such as St. Petersburg and Moscow. And after a while, funerals will go in the opposite direction. In such circumstances, it will no longer be possible to overcome the flurry of criticism and discontent of the mothers of Russian conscripts so easily. Therefore, this option is excluded.
Now only representatives of national minorities living in the Russian Federation are fighting in Ukraine. Consequently, in the national republics, the question is brewing, why are not ethnic Russians fighting, but citizens of these republics?
Sergey Bykov is sure that Putin will not dare to declare mobilization/Photo from the speaker's archive
What kind of “victory” can Putin announce?
It is clear that there are no real victories may be out of the question. Today, for the Russians, the “capture” of Mariupol can be a victory. In turn, this allowed us to automatically win another “victory” and open a land corridor to the Crimea.
Also, if we analyze the latest rocket attacks by the aggressor, we will see that they are primarily directed against Ukrainian infrastructure, railway junction stations and electrical substations located there. Recently, Russian troops launched a massive attack on electrical substations on the railway in order to stop electric trains coming to us with the help of Western partners.
It is also important that these transport hubs are used to export Ukrainian grain. The President of Russia wants not only to starve our entire country, but also a significant part of the world. By doing this, the Russian leader wants to surpass Stalin. These are the ingredients of Putin's recipe for victory.
Putin wants to “sell” the invented “victory” in Donbas to the Russians/Photo by Getty Images
“Referendums” in Ukraine and the Kremlin's plans
< p>What does the Kremlin plan to do with our south if it fails to hold a referendum there?
One way or another, the Russian Fuhrer is trying to cover up his criminal actions with the illusion of some kind of legal norms. So far, Moscow has not crossed this limit, simply coming and taking the occupied territories without any attempt to formalize it legally.
So far, we have not had such examples. And I have big doubts that we will see something similar in relation to the Kherson region, for example. I do not believe in this. They always try to cover up their illegal actions with some kind of screen like pseudo-referendums or something like that.
They need this in order not to look like complete impudent in the eyes of the world community.
And what will the Donbass expect in the coming days? Can the Russians announce its takeover?
I was sure that the Russian president would not recognize the pseudo-republics in the Donbass. I even argued with one deputy in the studio of one of our big TV channels. This happened just on the day when Putin was supposed to sign the decree on recognition.
He told me that he recognized, but on the contrary, I insisted that he didn’t, because to do such a thing you have to be crazy. As a result, I failed. Analyzing the actions of this or that politician, I always consider his actions through the prism of the laws of logic. 05/putin-hochet-prevzojti-stalina-i-zamorit-golodom-ukrainu-i-mir-intervju-s-ekspertom-f1aed67.png” alt=”Putin wants to surpass Stalin and starve Ukraine and the world: an interview with an expert” />
Putin may announce the accession of the quasi-republic to Russia/Channel 24 site collage
However, this time this approach did not help me, because the Kremlin leader went against absolutely all the laws of logic. Therefore, we can really expect a decision on the annexation of Luganda to Russia.
But again, will this help Putin? No, absolutely nothing. On the contrary, this will anger the Ukrainians even more. This, firstly, and secondly, will lead to an increase in the pace of imposing new sanctions on Russia. The seventh package of sanctions is already completely paralyzing the Russian economy.
Such a development of events is provided for in the roadmap for imposing sanctions, developed by the Yermak-McFaul group. That is, if God forbid, President Putin decides to join the quasi-republics, this will lead to an increase in the rate of arms supplies to Ukraine and increased sanctions pressure on the aggressor country.
The attitude of the Russian elite to the war against Ukraine< /h3>
How does Putin's entourage feel about the continuation of the war?
The most militant wing continues to dominate. And we will observe this state of affairs even after Putin's hypothetical retirement one way or another. After all, this aggressive vertical rests not only on the figure of the Russian president.
It was constructed thanks to the collective efforts of the so-called Ozero cooperative. Therefore, do not think that something will change for the better. Changing the main character will not entail the best changes for us. As proof of this, we can recall at least Navalny's phrase about “Crimea is not a sandwich.”
